The days were busy, and in the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the sixth month, the birthday of the old lady of the loyal and brave mansion.

As soon as the day dawned, the waiting house was busy.

As early as a few days ago, the Li family had lifted the grounding, but the old lady was still dissatisfied with her and had a grudge, so even if she was out of the painting brocade garden, the old lady handed over the matter of taking care of her birthday to Xiao Xiwei, and specially sent a few proud maids and mothers-in-law in Jingyuan to help her.

Therefore, Xiao Xiwei got up early in the morning, wiped his face and rinsed his mouth, and simply used a bowl of lotus seed porridge, and called Ziyan to come over and comb his hair. Ziyan was skillful, but after a while, he pulled a delicate bun for her. Ziyan was hesitating to pick out any jewelry, and Xiao Xiwei had already taken out the pair of gold silk inlaid rubies that the old lady had given her from the jewelry box and put them on. At this time, Hongyu had already held a set of breast-length skirts specially made for the old lady's birthday, with a big red background embroidered with peonies, and walked over to change it for Xiao Xiwei, the bright color lined her snow-white skin, and the whole person was as delicate as the peony on her skirt, and there was an indescribable luxury in the gorgeous.

After cleaning up, she led the girl and the woman to walk towards the flower hall.

Fortunately, this time the old lady was not a full life, so he didn't do it in a big way, so although Xiao Xiwei felt a little struggling, she was not in a hurry with the help of Mama Liu.

After thinking about it, the flower hall has arrived.

When Xiao Ran stepped into the flower hall, Mama Liu had already commanded the girl to be busy, and when she saw that she was connected, she hurriedly came over and saluted her, and then told her in detail about the layout in the flower hall and the food prepared for her birthday.

Mama Liu has been with Lao Taijun for many years, and when Lao Taijun was in charge of the house, she also took care of a lot of trivial matters for the banquet, so Lao Taijun asked her to come over to help Xiao Xiwei, firstly, to avoid Xiao Xiwei making mistakes at the birthday banquet, and secondly, to take this opportunity to let Xiao Xiwei learn from Mama Liu.

Xiao Xiwei naturally understood the old lady's intentions, so when Mama Liu was talking, she listened very carefully. Mama Liu saw that Xiao Xiwei had no shelf, and there was still a little smile on her face, so she was naturally happy in her heart, so she said a few more words to her.

After a while, Xiao Xichun also led Mama Xiao and the two girls to arrive.

"Second sister." Xiao Xichun hung his head and shouted in a low voice.

Although Xiao Xiwei didn't blame her for being scratched on her forehead by a cat, she always felt guilty when she saw Xiao Xiwei.

"Why is the fourth sister so early?" Xiao Xi smiled and said hello.

Xiao Xichun raised his eyes and glanced at Xiao Xiwei, a trace of guilt flashed in the pupils of the black pupils, and he opened his mouth but couldn't make any sound. Seeing this, Mama Xiao said with a smile, with a little apprehension and flattery in her smile, "My young lady is afraid that the second young lady will not be busy alone, and I want to see if there is anything I can help with?" ”

Now although the young lady has been taken back to the house, but the grandfather does not like her, the old lady also because of the last wild cat scratched the second lady's attitude towards her is much lighter, the third aunt has had a gap with the late second aunt before, seeing that the fourth lady is not happy with the lord and the old lady, she has come to the warm spring pavilion three or four times to find trouble, and the step-lady is even more vicious...... There are traps everywhere in this mansion, there are eyes everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss and never recover, and now the only one who can catch it is the second lady in front of you. If she can get the protection of the second miss, then the fourth miss will be able to live a much better life in the future.

Xiao Xiwei glanced at Xiao Xichun, who was timid.

In the previous life, Xiao Xichun was not picked up from Zhuangzi until she was sixteen years old, and she had already become the fourth princess at that time, and her impression of Xiao Xichun was that when she was married to Ping'an Bo as a step-family by the Li family, she had a red shadow, her eyebrows and eyes were blurred, and she called her second sister in a low voice through Xipa. A year later, it was rumored that she had an affair with Ping An Bo's concubine, and was later drowned in a well by Ping An Bo. At that time, Xiao Xile, who was the concubine of the Seventh Emperor, told the tragic situation when Xiao Xichun was drowned, but she just thought that this girl was really bold! Therefore, when she proposed to the old lady to take Xiao Xichun back to the house, firstly, to let the Li family add to the blockage, and secondly, she also wanted to know whether the Li family had made a hindrance in the defeat of the second aunt and the third aunt back then, if it was related to the Li family, then Xiao Xichun would have to take revenge on the Li family when she returned home, but she never thought that Xiao Xichun was so soft and cowardly.

This Xiao Xiwei in front of her, no matter what, she can't associate her Xiao Xichun with her concubine.

"I think the time is about the same, and the ladies and ladies who will stay in the various provinces will come, and my sister will greet those ladies with me when the time comes." Xiao Xi pursed the corners of his lips slightly and smiled.

Listening to Xiao Xiwei's words, Mama Xiao was overjoyed. The second lady is willing to take the fourth lady out to show her face, if she can show her face in front of all the ladies, she can also talk about a good marriage in the future.

"Miss, don't thank Miss Two." Mama Xiao hurriedly tugged at the corners of Xiao Xichun's sleeves, and her eyes couldn't hide her excitement.

"Thank you, thank you, second sister." Xiao Xichun lowered his eyes, his bright eyes were dyed with a layer of wetness, and there was an unconcealable gratitude and an inexplicable trace of dependence.

In the past few days, she has been squeezed by the third aunt and the girl in the house, and she feels that she seems to have been sent back to the village in the countryside. Mama Xiao had already made various analyses for her and asked her to hold on to her second sister in order to get ahead, but as long as she thought that she had injured her second sister's head because of her, she couldn't open that mouth.

Xiao Xiwei was stunned. The first time she was looked at with such gratitude and dependence, she inexplicably felt uncomfortable, she looked away a little stiffly, and saw that Xiao Xichun was only wearing a light blue scattered flower skirt, and only a simple beaded flower was inserted on her head. Xiao Xi thought about it slightly, then pulled out a gold silk inlaid ruby double luan from his head and inserted it into Xiao Xichun's sideburns, "This will look much better." ”

"Second sister, this ...... How does this work? Xiao Xichun hurriedly raised his hand and wanted to pull it off and return it to Xiao Xiwei, but she held her hand.

"Speaking of which, I haven't given you anything for so long since you returned home, and this step is just a gift for me to give you." Xiao Xiwei said, and raised his hand to help her with that step.

"Second sister......" Xiao Xichun tears blurred his face.

Xiao Xi smiled, "It's just a step, look at you like this, I thought I was bullying you." ”

"My sister is right! It's just a step shake, the second sister has a lot of things, even if she sends out ten or eight branches, it's nothing to the second sister! At this time, Xiao Xile walked in holding Li's hand.

Today, she wore a high-waisted skirt with red hibiscus flowers woven with gold patterns, combed a delicate and complex cross bun on her head, and carefully selected a set of red gold butterfly heads, which were very bright. It's just that she is still young now, and her eyebrows and eyes have not fully grown, although her facial features are exquisite, she can't suppress the gorgeous and precious red, coupled with the cumbersome decorations, there is always a feeling of being overwhelmed by this red. Therefore, when she stood next to Xiao Xiwei in the same bright red skirt, she looked a little impetuous in comparison.

As soon as Xiao Xile finished speaking, his eyes inadvertently swept over Xiao Xichun, and when he saw the golden silk inlaid ruby double luan on her head, her pupils suddenly burst out with a raging anger.

The last time she wanted this step shake, Xiao Xiwei said that she wouldn't give her a branch, and now she actually gave this step shake to Xiao Xichun!

Sensing Xiao Xile's gaze, Xiao Xichun looked away awkwardly and took two steps back. As soon as she moved, her steps swayed slightly, and the ruby on it slashed with a glimmer of light, shaking the anger and jealousy in Xiao Xile's pupils even more.

"My sister is really good to the fourth sister, even the golden silk inlaid ruby double luan dot cuibu shake given by my grandmother is willing to share one of the four sisters, aren't you afraid that my grandmother will be angry when she sees it!" Xiao Xile gritted his teeth and said.

Xiao Xichun was stunned.

What, this step shake turned out to be given by my grandmother to my second sister?

Xiao Xiwei smiled, "How come, when you look at our sisters wearing one by one, they will only say that our sisters are harmonious, and grandmother will feel happy and relieved when she sees it, how can she be angry?" After that, she turned her face and looked at Li Shi with a smile, "Mother, did you say it?" ”

Li's eyes quickly flashed a trace of ruthlessness, but a gentle smile appeared on his face, "What Wei'er said is that if the old lady knows that your sisters are really so harmonious, she will naturally be happy. ”

The corners of Xiao Xi's lips hooked slightly, and he turned his eyes to look at Xiao Xichun and said with a light smile, "Chun'er, stay with me, and I will introduce you to all the ladies and young ladies." ”

"Yes. Second sister. Xiao Xichun responded obediently.

Li Shi listened to it next to him, and his face couldn't help but turn cold.

It stands to reason that taking care of these things about the birthday banquet is obviously done by her, the housewife, but now the old lady has handed over these things to this yellow-haired girl, which is obviously to lose her face! However, with such a big scene, she didn't believe that Xiao Xiwei, a yellow-haired girl, could make a mistake! If she loses the face of the Houfu at that time, she will take back the power of the housekeeper in front of everyone!

Thinking of this, Li couldn't help but smile, took Xiao Xile's hand and sat back in the chair casually.

As soon as a few people sat down, Xiao Min led Zhou Shumei in. Seeing that Xiao Xiwei and the Li family had arrived, he couldn't help but smile, "I thought I was early enough, but I didn't expect you all to arrive." ”

The juniors in the room all stood up and saluted.

Li raised his eyes and glanced at Xiao Min and Zhou Shumei, nodded slightly, and a trace of contempt crossed his slender eyes.

Li and Xiao Min have been at odds since childhood. Xiao Min looked down on the Li family, who lived in Houfu, and was sarcastic about Li at first, until Li married Xiao Yan and became the stepwife of Houfu and began to make things difficult for Xiao Min, Xiao Min In order to avoid Li from taking her marriage as a hindrance, Xiao Min begged the old Hou Ye Xiao Qi to marry her far away to Pingcheng.

Xiao Min took Xiao Xiwei's hand as if he didn't notice it, and several people laughed beside him, not taking the Li family mother and daughter in their eyes at all.

Li glanced at the harmony over there, and his eyes instantly became gloomy.

After a while, Mrs. and Miss came one after another.

Although Xiao Yan has not inherited the title of Zhongyong Hou, he is in the position of the squire of the military department in the court, although the grade is not high, but his immediate boss Shangshu of the military department is old, and it will take less than two years to retire, and he will naturally go up at that time. Therefore, although there was no big event for Lao Taijun's birthday this time, there were many people who came to congratulate.

Xiao Xiwei led Xiao Xichun and greeted those ladies one by one. Her words are soft, her smile is calm, and the beauty and nobility on her body make people feel good involuntarily.

Li Shi saw that she hadn't found a single fault in her for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger in his heart.